Verdena:
Do you mean "Pretty boxes, made of ticky tacky. Pretty boxes all in a row."?
That describes most of America today.
I remember when there were orange trees by the gazillion in Orange County; along I-5. Now it's "pretty boxes, pretty boxes all in a row"... As far as the eye can see.
Just tonight, my dear wife (of 31 years), Rachel, said that she would like to live on the Morgan homestead at Elsie, OR. It's too bad we didn't know that the place was for sale before it was sold.
I spent a couple of weeks there in 1994 helping my aunt (Lovena Houk Morgan), prepare to move to Tacoma. Gee! She had the perfect "mosquito magnets". I think you call them "bats".
There was a mercury vapor steet lamp in her drive way that attracted the bugs, and I watched the bats fly through the swarm and saw it deminish, ever so slowly, night after night. It didn't cost a cent. :-)
And there isn't a "pretty box" within miles of that location.
Cecil
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----- Original Message -----
From: Verdena Veelle
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's Roses
Cecil, sometimes I think there is just too much "improvement" going on in these parts. For instance the nice rich, fertile soil on flat land being put into houses or as Burl Ives referred to them "pretty boxes". There is a place for houses and a place for growing food (and flowers) but money seems to the main motive now.
Verdena
----- Original Message -----
From: Cecil Houk
To: or-roots ; OREGON-L at rootsweb.com
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:59 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's Roses
Jeremiah Shea's Roses
Not to steel Walt's thunder, BUT...
When we lived in the Shea house at Foster, there were many roses in front of that house. If you look closely at the photo at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/3/foster-house0.jpg
You can see them along the wooden walkway between the house and the highway. On either side (along the front edge of the property), there were "rambling roses"; red. I can't swear that Mr. Shea planted these roses, but I'd like to think so.
One day the Highway Department "improved" HWY 20 by bull dozing the rambling roses.
I've not seen any of the roses that were there in the 1940's since.
Cecil
Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
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